Maxim Tsvetkov

Maxim Sergeyevich Tsvetkov is a Russian biathlete, born on 3 January 1992 in Babayevo in the Vologda Oblast, who holds the title of Honoured Master of Sport of Russia (2015). He won a bronze medal in the relay at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing and was part of the Russian men's relay team that won the 2017 World Championships in Hochfilzen. He is also a European champion (2014), a World Military Games champion (2017), a two-time junior world champion and a three-time youth world champion. He started cross-country skiing at the age of six at the children's sports school in Babayevo, where his father coached, and in 2013 he finished eighth in his first adult World Cup race at Holmenkollen. He was dropped from the national team in 2019 amid a conflict with the Russian biathlon union.